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CAMEROON

All United Nations member countries agreed to celebrate September 21, The International Day of Peace as a Global Ceasefire and Day of Peace & Nonviolence in our homes, our communities and between nations. Peace Day has been a focal point for community-uniting and peace-inspiring events since its inception in 1981. Together we can create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world, one heart, one family, one community at a time. Join the Countdown To Peace and help inspire your community to create humanity's first day of peace, ever.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

  • Ask your favorite organization, group or religious institution to support the International Day of Peace
  • Plan or attend a Peace Day Event in your community (scheduled events include concerts, parades, marches, fasts, conferences, festivals, gatherings, service projects, ceremonies, children's activities such as peace art & essay contests and pinwheels for peace, Peace Day parties and peace vigils)
  • Ask your Mayor, City Council, Governor and Head of State to declare a Proclamation of Peace
  • Print out Flyers, Posters and other Resources

Peace Day SUPPORTERS

Please ask your favorite group, organization or religious institution to support
The International Day of Peace

(*The opinions of these organizations are their own.
Pathways To Peace and The International Day of Peace NGO Committee at the UN
do not necessarily support the views expressed by these organizations
that support the International Day of Peace.)

2006 PLANS

BAMENDA
International centre for Conflict and human rights analysis, cameroon office
Contact: chi primus C
p.o.box 379
Bamenda
Tel: 237 787 48 94
Email: cameroon@icchra.org
Web: www.icchra.org
EVENT:  We seek to request for collaboration and assistance in observing this important day. We hope to organize a peace march, organize tree planting and orgaization of musical concerts. We are however still open to more suggestions.
BUEA
PCC Buea Station
Group size: 700
Contact person: Rev. Aboseh Ngwana
Phone: +237 332 26 06
Email: aboseh_mojoko@yahoo.com
IDP Vigil :  This year we hope to move out of our church to the streets. We'll talk with the mayor of our town so that it could be observed in an ecumenical spirit.
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
BUEA
Presbyterian Church in Cameroon
Contact: Rev. Aboseh Ngwana
Email: aboseh_mojoko@yahoo.com
 EVENT:  Youths of our congregation will observe the Prayer Vigil on the eve and on the 21st September will have a Divine worship service in the Congreagtion dedicated to Peacemakers.
CPC BALI
The Globe Club, CPC Bali
EVENT: One of the hundreds of ENO Schools (Environment Online) that will plant trees for the International Day of Peace as a symbol for environmental protection, international co-operation, cultural diversity, tolerance and peace. (http://eno.joensuu.fi/treeceremony.htm)
KUMBA
ELIE CIG
Contact: EPIE PROMISE
Tel: 590 45 62/785 80 42
Email: ngolepie@yahoo.fr
 EVENT:  Organising church services and educate the youths in mbonge sub division on peace.
LIMBE
Luther King Jr Memorial Foundation (LUKMEF) Cameroon
Contact: Nnorom Mary
Tel: (00237) 333 28 60
Email: info@lukmefcameroon.org
Web: www.lukmefcameroon.org
 EVENT:  As part of activities making this years Peace week, LUKMEF will be presenting a number of Peace talks in schools, the Radio and a press conference at the resource Centre conference Hall Peace Talks in schools; 11th September 2006 Miiiii11onday 9/11 Press Conference; 13th September 2006 Sept. 21st 2006 (World Day of Peace) Peace Dinner; 21st September 2006. It is a yearly event initiated by LUKMEF that offers an opportunity for individuals and the community as a whole to meet, share a common meal while discussing peace. It is a moment of forgiveness, reconciliation, reflection on national and world peace. Traditionally, invitees include the government, political party leaders, civil society, women leaders and foreign nationals living within the province. Telephone +237 333 28 60 Take a date with any of these Programs and contribute to a new national and global peace initiative.
NTAMULUNG
GBHS Bamenda
EVENT: One of the hundreds of ENO Schools (Environment Online) that will plant trees for the International Day of Peace as a symbol for environmental protection, international co-operation, cultural diversity, tolerance and peace. (http://eno.joensuu.fi/treeceremony.htm)
SMALLEKOMBE
Queen Nursery Primary School
EVENT: One of the hundreds of ENO Schools (Environment Online) that will plant trees for the International Day of Peace as a symbol for environmental protection, international co-operation, cultural diversity, tolerance and peace. (http://eno.joensuu.fi/treeceremony.htm)
UPSTATION
GBHS Bamendankwe
EVENT: One of the hundreds of ENO Schools (Environment Online) that will plant trees for the International Day of Peace as a symbol for environmental protection, international co-operation, cultural diversity, tolerance and peace. (http://eno.joensuu.fi/treeceremony.htm)
YAOUNDE
Nepac's Foundation
Lauching an art competition for children, and art exhibition of selected works of the children on peace with those of the artist Nepac. there will be a peace virgile and the lauching of peace poles. also there will be the releasing of peace birds. Contact: Nereus patrick cheo - bawumboy@yahoo.co.uk
YAOUNDE
Service For Peace Cameroon
Contact: George Ndode
Email: wsfpcam@hotmail.com
 EVENT:  We will engage youth and university students in a service for peace project in the city of Yaounde. Service enable us to feel closer to one another as one family. We should build peace through a culture of Service. The message to be given to dozens of youth and policy makers on September 21.
YAOUNDE
"Club Globe" general Leclerc high school
EVENT: One of the hundreds of ENO Schools (Environment Online) that will plant trees for the International Day of Peace as a symbol for environmental protection, international co-operation, cultural diversity, tolerance and peace. (http://eno.joensuu.fi/treeceremony.htm)
YAOUNDE
Kids4Peace Cameroon
Contact: Nereus Patrick CHEO
Tel: +237 7628909
Email: bawumboy@yahoo.co.uk
 EVENT:  We will be projecting a presentation on Mother Theresa as a model of peace to leaders especially to presidents of youth organisations in Yaounde, then will be followed by a painting competition on peace for children, a night virgil, peace exhibition, and peace doves.
YAOUNDE
Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child (CAPEC
Contact: Ajomuzu Collette Bekaku
phone: +237 775 16 06
website: www.capecam.org
Email: info@capecam.org
 EVENT:  CAPEC will vist and donate gifts to orphan children at orphanages around Yaounde.We'll also join in a peace mass organised by the Catholic Church for school children as they begin a new school year .

Teachers Resource Center
One of the hundreds of ENO Schools (Environment Online) that will plant trees for the International Day of Peace as a symbol for environmental protection, international co-operation, cultural diversity, tolerance and peace. (http://eno.joensuu.fi/treeceremony.htm)

Peace Day ARCHIVE

CAMEROON
2003 - UNIC/Yaounde organized a media event to coincide with the Peace Bell ceremony a the UN Headquarters. On the International Day of Peace, spiritual leaders were urged to preach sermons of peace using excerpts from the Secretary-General's message for the Day.
(www.un.org/events/peaceday/2003/photos.html)
CAMEROON
2005 - A Peace Conference in Yaounde began with a Peace March, singing the National Anthem and a special Peace Anthem composed for the event, which was broadcast on TV to 10 provinces in Cameroon. The message of the Secretary General of the United Nations was read inviting the world to celebrate Peace Day and a Peace Pole was dedicated.
(www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/2005wpps/cameroon.htm)

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